Idealism in the young, I guess I'm saying, is curiosity as well as goodness trying to express itself.

Christ is God or He is the world's greatest liar and imposter.

The only solution is love.

What we would like to do is change the world...by crying out unceasingly for the rights of the workers, of the poor, of the destitute. We can throw our pebble in the pond and be confident that its ever widening circle will reach around the world.

The works of mercy are the opposite of the works of war, feeding the hungry, sheltering the homeless, nursing the sick, visiting the prisoner. But we are destroying crops, setting fire to entire villages and to the people in them. We are not performing the works of mercy but the works of war.

I think that just as we're in the nuclear era we're also in an era of non-violence. It's undefeatable.

It is penance to work, to give oneself to others, to endure the pinpricks of community living.